1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

loveliness is infernally sad.

... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting, often, of lights, streets, houses, human beings, beautiful or grotesque, which will weave itself into the moment for ever.

War is not women's history.